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Congratulations to Bob Slayden SS on defeating Larry Walker SS in an all lefties final match, 236 to 216 to take home the $1000.00 first prize and throphy. This is Bob's first SSO championship. Bob qualified in 3rd spot with 1330 averaging 222 for this first 6 games. Speaking of Bob's first championship, he also obtained his first Senior Motor City Classic championship last Saturday winning another $1000.00 in the Arena of Thunderbowl Lanes.

Congratulations also goes out to Larry Walker on his second place finish. Larry qualified in 6th spot with a 218 average.

Every pin counts. Bob stayed in the elimination rounds by just 1 pin in round 2 with a 191 over Sherri Verespej's loosing 190. Then he advanced by 7 pins in round 3 and by only 3 pins in round 4. In the final match Bob decided he was going to win by more than single digits with a 20 pin cushion. Larry advanced to round 2 of the eliminations by just 6 pins to keep his hopes alive with a winning 193 over Greg McCreadie's lower 187 game.

We had 66 bowlers this weekend with one having to withdraw during the 15 minute practise session. There were 19 super seniors, 3 super super seniors and 1 female bowler in attendance. In our Elimination Rounds we had 7 SS, 1 SSS and 1 female along with the rest of our seniors.

The Tournament average this weekend was 195, 10 pins lower than our last tournament. It took a total of 1258 and an average of 210 or better to make it to the Elimination Rounds above the cut line set by John Goormastic.

There were two regular seniors, three super seniors below the cut line. Pete Kaczmarczyk and Jeff Wallen were the two senior's, Mike Lucente, Pete Billi and Nick Beelaard were the three SS to advance below the cut line.

We ended up with 22 bowlers in the Elimination Rounds, providing a little better than 1 in 3 cashing ratio for the tournament.

There were no honor scores however George Forsey had an 11 in a row 295 in game 3 of qualifying.

The SSO will be providing more BONUS tournaments with a wider variety of formats in 2017. We'll be bringing you four bonus events next year including a new Canadian Open added this year to be held in Windsor Ontario Canada. The date will be Saturday April 8th of 2017.